It’s rare that a university professor kills; when he does (it’s almost always he), it’s almost always a husband or boyfriend killing a wife or girlfriend in a rage.
This much-covered case of a Northwestern University professor allegedly stabbing a young man to death in the professor’s apartment sounds like something similar, although this might have been a gay relationship.
To the newsworthiness of a professor killing (and a professor from a major university), we can add the fact that the guy specialized in the plague!
Oxford College Treasurer and
Black Death Professor
Sought in US-Wide Murder Manhunt
Here’s hoping he didn’t arm himself with a few bacilli on his way out of town.
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He’s on the run. Maybe I saw him last Wednesday.
I was on the metro, the red line, from Bethesda into the city to have lunch with a friend, and across from me on the train sat a guy who looked somewhat like the description and photo the police provided. He was probably in his forties, athletic, on the tall side, and what really struck me was the t-shirt he had on: It said VASSAR on it, and the guy graduated from Vassar.
He had a lot of luggage, but lots of people on the DC metro carry lots of luggage.
And – yeah, I hear you – would a smart guy like this one wear a shirt that had Vassar emblazoned on it?
August 4th, 2017 at 10:09AM
It has gotten a lot of coverage, but the police (who certainly know what the basic deal is and probably have from the start) and the media are playing Sgt. Schultz here. If this were the wife or girlfriend, we would know everything from her dress size to her favorite kind of salad dressing by now.